Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1887-04-15
GENERAL NEWS.
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GENERAL NEWS.
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WEST FAIRvIEw, Pa, April O.
Prohibionists were much shocked yes
terday when it was learned that a
number of their wives had sent this
petition to the presiding Judge of the
Court of Quarter Sessions:
ave, the undersigned, ladies of full
age, residing in West Fairview, Cum
berland county, Pennsylvania, respect
fully represent that we believe a Ii
censed hotel is necessary in our town.
We feel sure that if license is granted
and our husbands can obtain a drink
of liquor when desired, they will not
bring home large quantities as now,
nor go away to Harrisburg for liquor
and remain away from home"
Up Go Transportation Rates.
Victoria COlonist, April I'd: 1t was
reported yesterday that freight rates
via the Canadian Pacific Railroad had
been advanced from fifty to one hun
dred per cent. in sympathy with the
advance on American roads conse-
quent on the Interstate Commerce bill
coming into force. The wisdom OF
doubling freights at this juncture is
very questionable. Sugar that was
previouly quoted at IS cents is now
rated at 81.
IL Causes San Franciseo Wholesale
Merehants - Raise Prices.
SAN FRANCISCO, April Gone OF
the results of the enforcement of the
Interstate Commerce bill is shown in
the following circular which has been
sent to the principal retail business
houses in this city by wholesale mer.
chants: "Owing to the enormous ad-
vance in freight on all goods which we
handle, it becomes necessary for us to
advance our prices and to withdraw
quotations which We have made here.
tofore."
The MiAnigAt Entertainmsat sf . CsusI
Murderer.
SING SING, March 28.-Edward Un-
ger, who was sent to Sing Sing for life
for the murder of August Bohle, is now
in the hospital Of the prison, a sufferer
from nervous prostration. His physi-
cal strength before his trial was great,
and his steadiness of nerve in court
was surprising; but his stamina is all
gone, and he has become miserable,
covering wreck. On the first morning
in the prison he told keeper that he
had been visited during the night by
his dismembered victim, who had pre-
ceeded to reconstruct himself in the
terrified prisoners presence. OF this
dream he could not be disabused. He
seemed to believe it was reality. Every
night it came to him, and at the end
of o week he was much broken down.
In the'prison hospital it has been the
same with him except when he is kept
very soundly asleep under narcotic in
fuence. He dreams that the mangled
pieces of his friend are strewn about
the room, where they lie awhile, inani-
mately, as they did before he packed
the body in the trunk and threw the
head into the river. Then the frag.
ments began to quiver. Soon they
move slowly toward each other, until
they are in a heap. Next they adjust
themselves into a human form. But
the head is missing. At length that
too, comes into the room, with its hair
dripping with the water of the river in
which it has lain. With its horrible
smile On its face, it places itself on the
shoulders of the figure, and menaces
the murderer. Unger shrieks out at
this point, and the apparition vanishes
from his imagination. All efforts have
failed to relieve him of these visions,
and the prison physician advises his
removal to the state asylum for luna
tic criminals.
Wants to be . 80 Page OF Low Degree
SAN Francisco, March, 3l.-The
trial OF Dr." James Hodges, the man
who exploded boom in the Grand
opera house, on the evening of the 9th
OF February, during one of the Patti
concerts, was begun this morning in
department II of the Superior Court,
before Judge Murphy. Hodges testi.
fed that he had gone to the opera with
the intention of ending his life while
Patti was singing. He had taken the
powder with him for that purpose, and
had placed screws in with the powder
SO that they might break into his skull
and let out his spirit. He placed the
screws in the can and called them his
"twelve apostles" He said he wanted
to die while Patti was singing so that
he could "be her page in spirit land.
He could not account for the presence